into force. In relation to training of law enforcement agents, the Government took initiative of including in the training curriculum of those agents, issues on domestic violence. Various initiatives are also under implementation both by the Government and civil society organizations in order to popularize this Law among the communities. Despite these efforts, the phenomenon of domestic violence is still a fact in Mozambican society and this is related to cultural aspects and other beliefs.39 311. In realtion to the need to accelerate the implementation of National Plan for the Advancement of Women, this issue recorded substantial progress in that this Plan was approved and widely publicised and its third edition is under implementation. 312. With reference to the APR Panel´s recommendation on the need to strengthen the participation of women at local level, through training programme that can improve the role of participation of women at local level through training programmes that can strengthen leadership capacities of women, trust, advocacy and self esteem the Government and other civil society organizations´ efforts are towards multiforme support to associations in particular to those composed by women and geared to the development of income generation activities at national level; integration of women who are heads of families in managment courses for small scale business; capacity building in terms of agro processing and management of credit in the context of “Projecto de Potenciação de Habilidades Empresariais Femininas” (Empoweremnet and Capacity building of Female Companies Project; constuction of Women Promotion Centre for vocational training of women at various levels. 313. With regards to participation of women in public life, namely in decision making levels, the country has been advancing satisfactorily. For example, in the Parliament, 40% of the total of 250 MPs are women and of the three parliamentary benches two are headed by women and at least two parliamentary commissions are lead by women. 314. However, despite this gradual progress in the country, there is a challenge for the mozambican society which is related to continuous upgrading of the position of women in society and doing away with the mentality that stil prevails tending to limite women to “domestic field”, doing home activities, in particular in rural areas, which constitutes a huge challenge both for the civil society organizations and government insinstitutions responsible for issues on empowerment of women and its repositioning in “public domein”. 315. As for the APR Panel recommendation to develop monitoring indicators that include gender aspects to evaluate progress on gender integration and a budget that is sensitive to gender issues; there has been some ”mixed” progress in the implementation of this recommendation. Indeed, indicators that are sensitive to gender were developed and included in Strategy Matrix for the Plan of Action for the Reduction of Poverty (PARP) and they are monitored on a regular basis by the Government and other stakeholders. In relation to budgeting in gender perspective, despite continuous capacity building involving various sectors of Government, its full materialization is yet weak and as so it constitutes a challenge. 39 In Chapter I (Democracy and Political Governance) Objective 7 “To Promote and Protect the Rights of Children and Women”, the issue of domestic violence and popularization of the respective Law is discussed in details. 98